Edmund Burke: “There you will see that arbitrary power for corrupt purposes over the servants of the Company is the foundation of every…”

Those who are servants in name, as well as in effect, do not like to be told of their situation, their duty, and their obligations.

We procure reverence to our civil institutions on the principle upon which Nature teaches us to revere individual men: on account of their age, and on account of those from whom they are descended.

Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.

But supposing they had ranked as they ought to do, and as with us they do actually, the sides of sick-beds are not the academies for forming statesmen and legislators.